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after be seored

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@ since Dec. 11 for
Nordiques, who took
rt in the Izvestia
rament in Moscow
while they were absent.
“T'm sure they felt the
Moscow tripin some way,
either in their heads or
their legs,” said Hed-
, ored

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must have some
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only other game
Birmingham
a &1 triumph
Soviet Union
scoring a is fi th

two goals for the
winners

Quebec coach Marc
Bolleau said he couldn't

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ef

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a

‘blame the Soviets for the

defeat in Winnipeg.
“Everybody is trying to
poss bekin d his Bick on
team. We gave away
three goals tonight by

Czechs at
' Madison

NEW YORK (AP) —
Dave Maloney’s goal with
15 seconds left ca a
three-goal thirdperiod
rally that lifted New York

ers of the National

ey League toa 4-4 tie
Monday ht with
Kledno of Cz lavakia
in the first-ever visit by a
Czech to Madison
Square Garden.

A crowd of 10,123 saw
Carol Vadnais’ power-
pay goal at 3:56 of the

od on a pass
from Phil Esposito and
Walter Tkaczuk's
unassisted, short-handed
breakaway at 10:03 bring

‘the ers to within 4-3

before Maloney blasted a
foot slap shot past
oaltender Mi
esa afier the Rangers
had pulled goaltender

sixth attacker.
Kladno got off to a 3-1

antage in the first

od, 8c

sec

a oring in the first
e firs
Pert onds when Bo-

huslav Ebermann took a

‘pass from Frantisec
. and beat
tender Doug Soetaert

with a 36-footer.

footer,
*. Milan Novy capitalized
breakewy pass

on s8
from Frantisec Kaberle
to. give the
Czechoslovaks a two-goal
lead. The Rangers came
n Lucien
DeBlois beat Krasa from
the right faceoff circle, At
18:04 of the period,
faroslav Pouzar
éposited a rebound
ind Soetaert after
Peter and Marian Stastny
d put heavy pressure
on Rangers goalie.
Pouzar scored the only
goal of the second ,
pick up a fac ass
m Peter Stastny dee
in the Rangers zone an
Davidson,
who played the second

peri in goal for New
ork

The three New York
s one
Forlod each, ad

esetetotet

giving away the puck in
our own zone.”
WHALERS LEAD

The results left idle
New England Whalers in
first place with 45 points,
two more than Winnipeg.
The Nordiques are thi
with 33 points but they
have six games in hand
on the Jets and four on
the Whalers.

Hedberg scored two of
his goals in the first 48
seconds of the game to
help the Jets extend their
winning streak to eight
before 10,341 fans.

Hedberg’s first goal
was his 27th of the season

the. and 2Wth of his WHA

carreer.
Winnipeg’s other goals

} were scored by Bobby

Guindon, Ted Green,
Kent Nilsson, Dan Labr-
aaten and Dave Kryskow.

Paulin | Bordeleau
scored twice for Quebec
with Steve Sutherland
and Real Cloutier getting
the others,

The Bulls had little
trouble with the Soviets
before 13,173 fans in
Birmingham, taking a 3-0
lead in the first period
and increasing the
margin to 5-1 after 40
minutes.

Late in the third period,
Mikhail Shostak of the
Soviets was handed a
misconduct penalty for
appparently __ strikin
referee Ron Harris wit
his stick. .

Serge Beaudoin, Steve
Durbano, Frank
Mahovlich and Brent
Hughes scored the other
goals for the Bulls who
moved into a fifth-place
tie with Houston Aeros,

Hawks sick
of losing

ASSOCIATED PRESS

“Atlanta Hawks must. be.

sick of seeing Washington
Bullets— and equally sick
of losing to them,

The Hawks played the
Bullets two consecutive
nights in a home-and-
home series and both
times lost to them by
andentical margins--the
last one a 113-106 decision
Monday night,

“1s hard to win after
you have beaten the same

m the previous night,”’
said Washington -coach
Dick Motta. ‘‘Tradi-
tionally, teams split when
they play on consecutive
nights.

“But the fact that we
won two nights in a row
by seven points does not
mean that we are seven
points better than they
are. It just worked out
that way.”

The Bullets won the
first game 100-93 Sunday
night.

Larry Wright seored 10
of his 17 points in the final

uarter to spur

‘ashington over Atlanta
on Monday. Atlanta
scored 30 points in the
last quarter—including 14
hy Steve Hawes—but the
Bullets held on.

Hawes had a career-
high 25 points for Atlanta,
many of them in the
Hawks’ fourth-quarter
rally,

In Monday (night.
other games, Detrolt

. Pistons defeated Boston

Celtics 122-100, Houston
Rockets tripped Kansas
City Kings 113-99 and
Denver Nuggets whipped
Phoenix Suns 127-108.

Other results Sunday
were: Cleveland
Cavaliers 111, Buffalo
Braves 105; Milwaukee
Bucks 131, Kansas City
122; New York Knicks
113, Philadelphia “J6ers
110; San Antonio Spurs
115, New Orleans Jazz
105; Portland Trail
Blazers 109, Golden State
Warriors 97; and Los
Angeles. Lakers 111,
Seattle SuperSonics 97.

Eric Money’s 23 points
Monday led Detroit over
Boston. The Celtics, who
now have lost six in a row
and 11 straight games on

the road, were led by ~

former Piston Dave Bing
with 19 points.

Calvin Murphy and
Moses Malone scored 22
points each to spark
Houston over Kansas
City. Murphy scored 20 of
his points in the first half
as the Rockets took an
early lead and were
never headed.

David Thompson and
Dan Issel each scored 24

oints, leading six

ver players in double
figures as the Nuggets
defeated Phoenix. The
Suns were led by Walter
Davis’ 23 points.

Christmas soccer

LONDON (Reuter) —
Everton, until Monday a
strong and solid con-
tender for English soc-
eer’s First Division
honors, continued its
Christmas collapse to-

Vv.

Everton was drubbed 3-
1 away by Leeds United
following Monday’s 6-2
rout at home by Man-
chester United. Their
onceproud defence, that
had conceded just 18
goals in 20 previous
games, gave up half that
mumber in just two
games,

Everton's defeat today
cost them a chance to
make up ground on
league-leading N
tingham Forest. one of

only two clubs in the

division having the da
off. Forest still leads wit
32 points. Everton held
second with 29.

Arsenal continued to
climb, beating West
Bromwich Albion 3-1
away today to claim a
share of second place
with Everton, though
their goal difference is
inferior.

Liverpool remained
fourth by beating
Wolverhampton 1-0,

The 20 First Division
sides went on a scoring
spree today, pott! 38
goals—nine of m
coming at Coventry
where the City side nosed
out Norwich.5-4.

Ss POM UI nn SOO

Moscow trip.

both with 28 points.

Vladimir ~Goluvovict
scored the lone goal for
the Soviets at 19:21 of the
third period.

The Soviets received 50
minutes from the total of
7 called by Harris, in-
cluding four misconduct
penalties.

By THE ASSOCIATED
PRESS

There's a familicrity
between the opponents
for Sunday's National
Football League cham-
pionship games, with
allas Cowboys and
Oakland Raiders also
much more familiar with
victory than Minnesota
Vikings and Denver
Broncos.

In the American
Football Conference title
game, the Raiders and
the Bronces will be
getting acquainted for the
37th time. Bitter rivals in
the AFC West, the
Raiders hold a lopsided

e in this long-time
series which has its roots
in the American Football
League.

Denver has wen just
seven times in the 36
meetings, including a 30-7
triumph at Oakland this
season, The return
match, in Denver, was
won 24-14 by the Raiders,
who have not lost to the
Broncos on the road since

Denver will be playin
at home, but the recor
gives Oakland the away-

field advantage. The
Raiders, defending Super
Bowl champions, aiso
must be given the edge in
playoff experience since
this will be only the
Broncos’ second post-
season game in their 18-
year history.

Their first was last
Saturday when they beat
the playofftough Pitt-
Sburgh Steelers 34-21
behind an aggressive
defence and a_ strong
second-half att

MADE OWN BREAKS

“We didn’t get many
yards in the first half but
we created a couple of
breaks,"” said Denver's
rookie coach, Red Miller.
“Then we just outplayed
the Steelers in the second

The Raiders just
outlasted the Baltimore
Colts 37-31 in double
overtime Saturday when
Ken Stabler threw three
touchdown passes to
Dave Casper, including a
10-yarder 43 seconds into
the sixth quarter.

Tt was hell,’’ said
Casper, speaking about
the third longest game in
NEL history. “How would

Cowboys, Raiders familiar
with victory |

you like one guy punching
you and then you pun-
ching him until one or the
other gets knocked out?

“It was like an Ali-
Frazier fight. It might
have been fun to watch,
but I'm sure it wasn’t fun
for them.”

The AFC title game is
set for 2p.m. EST on New

Year's Day and will be
followed y the NFC
championship contest at

Dallas between the
Cowboys and Minnesota
at 5:30. ~

NOTICE

1978
BUSINESS LICENCE
INVOICES

Have now been mailed to all 1977 licenced
businesses. If your firm or business has no?

received an invoice contact the District of

Terrace immediately,

Anyone doing

business within the District? of Terrace

without a valid
prosecution.

licence is subject fo

Signed,

T.G. Chesterman,
Licence Officer.
District of Terrace

seat belts.

We've heard about the emotional

and social costs of auto accidents.
And at the Insurance Corporation, .. -
our knowledge is first-hand, We €
talk to the survivors. _

Still, many people doxit buckle up...
So maybe it wiil help to look at the=,
“practical” costs, The dollars-and-
cents facts about accidents and

Facts Injuries and deaths will
cost B.C. motorists just under

$100 million in 1977. This includes
hospital and medical costs, lost
wages, and injury and death
benefit settlements.

If you won't buckle up
to save your life,
do it to save money. _

lf more of us had buckled uplast year, wed be paying -

lower Autoplan rates this year.

Fact: Nothing costs more or
pushes insurance rates higher than
injury and fatality claims. And,
alarmingly, the cost of these claims
keeps going up. The cost of our
average bodily injury claim rose
from $3,736 for the eight months
ending October, 1976 to $6,358 for
the same period in 1977—an

increase of 70 per cent.

ome

Facts Seat belts can reduce the
cost of your insurance premium. If
every B,C. driver and passenger
had been protected by properly
worn lap and shoulder belts last
year, hundreds of lives might have
been saved. And millions of dollars.
Experience in Ontario proves

the effectiveness of seat belts.

In the first three months of 1976,
compulsory use of seat belts
together with lower speed limits
reduced injuries by 22 per cent and
saved $1-million in medical costs

alone.

per cent.

belt.

INSURANCE

CORPORATION

OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

Where the driver sets the rates.

Fact: When seat belts are in use,
the chance of bodily injury in an
auto accident is reduced by 50

Remember that next time you
drive. Anywhere. At any speed.
Make sure that you and your
passengers are securely buckled up.
And if it makes you uncomfortable
to think of your seat belt as a life
belt—try thinking of it as a money

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